HELLDIVERS 2 WANT KERNEL LEVEL ACCESS TO YOUR SYSTEM

bravo, mustards. you rolled over and accepted china riot's kernel level anti-cheat, so now it's becoming industry standard. want to play a game on PC? accept that you're giving unfettered access to your system to anyone that can publish a game with NO way of knowing how that access is actually used. "we promise not to do anything bad" is literally all you get

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  1. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >nProtect
    it's like I'm back in the early 2000's playing Gunbound again

  2. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    This game is directly connect playstation/sony and automatically disqualifies from ever being purchased by me.

    I've said it before, and I'll say it again.
    I do not like.
    I do not want.
    You're disgusting snoyslop on my fricking platform.

    Take your shitty games back.
    Please. I'm begging you. Frick off forever snoy. Take your games with you. Begone! You'll never get a dime from me.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Is GameGuard a kernel-level / administrator-privilege anti-cheat?
      >Yes,
      Glad we cleared that up, it's not touching my system. Nobody needs root access to my personal effects.

      >anon discounts things out of hand because of who funded them
      >probably applies this asinine childish mindset retroactively too
      >uses meme parlance like slop so obviously he's an election tourist, meaning he b***hes about trannies every day
      Do you see the irony in the way you act? You're a troony at heart, you fricking idiot.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        I don't give singular frick what you think.
        Sony doesn't make games. They fund propaganda wrapped in a shitty game. Never ever getting a single dime from me, no exceptions. If I were president. Sony's company and all sony products would be entirely banned in my country. Expelled. Gone. Forever.

        Now to play your shitty spiderman games. The fridge ain't gonna lift itself you dog.

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          [x] obsessed
          [x] seething
          [ ] meds taken

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >You're
      Sorry but I can't read the rest of your post. Shame too, because I liked the direction it was going in.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        The reddit *teleports behind u* emphasis spacing is okay though?

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Nice, another snoyslop garbage I'll never install on my pc

      FPBP

    • 4 months ago
      DoctorGreen

      isn't this a pve coop game
      why does that need anticheat?

      disgusting practice

  3. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    isn't this a pve coop game
    why does that need anticheat?

    • 4 months ago
      FBI

      ummm sweetie too many questions why do you care don't you hate cheaters??? take your meds

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      probably because they want to introduce mxt, season pass, ranked matchmaking, all that bullshit.
      Enjoy your GAAS

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      The first game had a strategic layer that actions of all players affected. Pushing back the enemy or letting super earth fall. I assume they are using anticheat for that reason. Despite the global war being something no one cares about.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >he thinks it's actually anti-cheat
      It's to combat modding of any kind, not just "cheating". They don't want you changing anything about the software, adding or replacing assets or unlocking deprecated or experimental features, and they'll lock down your machine to make sure you can't do it.

      Crapcom had a board meeting about how mods cause damage to franchises, and apparently so did everyone else. You can bet it's the same ~~*people*~~ behind it all.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        Anti-modder corpos disgust me. The biggest names in gaming started out as mods. So "damaging the franchise" translates to "someone else made DOTA and make billions instead of us".

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        >It's to combat modding of any kind, not just "cheating". They don't want you changing anything about the software, adding or replacing assets or unlocking deprecated or experimental features, and they'll lock down your machine to make sure you can't do it.
        Very likely this is the case. If the user is able to twist the game in a way that extracts more fun without paying another dime that is considered theft in their eyes. The moment another product in their lineup comes down the pipe they want a surefire way to wipe out the previous game to stop any sales cannibalization.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Darktide did the same shit and they pretty much outright stated its just to prevent you from cheating in the cash shop cosmetics.
      It has nothing to do with “protecting” you from cheaters, they just happily frick you over so they can make slightly more money off of mtx.

  4. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    lmao snoy rootkits are back

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >"Yes, it is in fact a rootkit."

      Y'know, for the Player$!

      >rootkit anticheat
      >in a pve game
      why are they so FRICKING STUPID HOLY SHIT

      >sony rootkit
      two words that ensure HD2 will never touch my PC

      gee I wonder what happened the last time Sony was putting rootkits with kernel-level access on people's systems

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal

      Everyone was so worried about Xbox monopolizing the market, but then Sony doublebacked to the time when they tried to install malware on their customer's PCs and get away with it. What a strange little company they are.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        MS doesn't need any of that shit since they already have Windows. Sony, since they don't have a place in the PC market, needs to do this.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >lmao snoy rootkits are back
      denuvo never left

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        Denuvo is executable obfuscation, it doesn't install any process monitoring software.
        It doesn't frick with the kernel, either.

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          >he doesn't know about denuvo's other tools

  5. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    It will fix itself cuz this trash will bomb

    Frick Snoy though

  6. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >rootkit anticheat
    >in a pve game
    why are they so FRICKING STUPID HOLY SHIT

  7. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >sony rootkit
    two words that ensure HD2 will never touch my PC

  8. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Wait what the actual frick why? Isnt this game pve only? Why invasive anti cheat? Also i like how he openly calls it rootkit at least hes honest but it also shows that people will eat any shit nowadays.

  9. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    and why does a helldivers sequel need 100GB of space? the frick did they do to this game?

  10. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    probably to protect their planned 999+ microtransactions
    I still want it

  11. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >yup, it's a rootkit
    >--dev
    how moronic do you have to be to outright state this

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      I mean they're stupid enough to have an anti-cheat in a PvE game.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      because ESEA and Valorant both use it to combat cheaters and it works significantly better than other solutions.

  12. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    fantastic, frick cheaterswkn8

  13. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Zoomers normalized kernel level anti-cheat with valorant and LoL
    >This is now the industry standard
    LMAO! Frick zoomers WW3 needs to happen sooner rather than later.

  14. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Gameguard has been around for eons and nobody has ever done anything malicious with it

  15. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    why is helldivers using a korean anti cheat?

  16. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    gee I wonder what happened the last time Sony was putting rootkits with kernel-level access on people's systems

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal

  17. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >most effective ways to combat cheating
    >cheaters in day 1 beta
    Shame, I was actually kinda excited to play this game. Also why the frick do you need an anti-cheat in a PvE game? If someone's cheating and griefing you just leave and start a new mission. Fricking clowns.

  18. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    If you control group policy/Intune for your organization, be sure to shitlist all kernel-mode anticheat drivers.

    People widely being unable to play video games on their work computers will cause a backlash, and if that backlash is towards IT, no CEO/CTO on earth is going to side with running video games on corporate equipment.

    My rationale is that it's a security risk. Even if the game isn't installed, a threat actor can load any signed kernel modules, and then exploit vulnerabilities in them.

  19. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >anticheat for a fricking pve coop game

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      can't have people cheating in those dlc items

  20. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Damn, really? Can't they at least make it so you can actually play Helldivers 1 singleplayer?

  21. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Cheating
    >In a PvE game

    Im out

  22. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >nProtect in 2024
    Did no one ever play any KMMO in the last 20 years?

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Segas MMO in 2024 also uses Gameguard

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        Watching this makes me incredibly angry for some reason.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        Bob would've had none of that. Drew probably gets a kick from it seeing how he was once the "improv comedy" guy.

  23. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Helldivers 1 is a shit game
    DRG and EDF are far better bug-squashing with the bros simulators

  24. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    That's a shame, I liked the first one. Already skipped the new Tribes game since its anti-cheat won't run if you have driver signing disabled, so I'm likely going to skip this one too.

  25. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why are there so many homosexuals that act like cheating doesn't run rampant in PVE games?

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Not my problem. Theres no cheating problem when I play with my friends.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      why are you pretending like anyone cheating pve is a problem? who cares.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        I care. I have to deal with cheating homosexuals all the time.

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          vote to kick. Its a feature designed over 20 years ago.

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            A grossly neglected one. 9 times out of 10 if you aren't the host you aren't kicking anyone.
            >well then always host lol
            How about cheating homosexuals get fricked so I don't have to go out of my way to ensure a good experience?

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              literally complaining about something that rarely happens, people dont cheat in pve games tard. Shill harder

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >people dont cheat in pve games
                Yes they do. All the fricking time. I can't count how many times I've had to quit mid-mission in EDF because some homosexual has infinite health/ammo/energy.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Playing PVE game with pubs
                But why

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                nofriends
                pls unnastan
                very autism
                also trans uwu

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                who the frick has 3 whole friends to play video games with? Most people solo queue

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Just kick them then or make your lobby private. There's dozens of ways to get a squad made before starting your game.

                Shit just make a thread on Ganker and post your lobby and I bet people would join.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >just inconvenience yourself because of some moronic homosexuals
                No, I'd rather not do extra work because of some cheating homosexuals.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                a man who sacrifices safety or sovereignty for convenience deserves none of them.
                eat a turd u buttburgl

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >>just inconvenience yourself because of some moronic homosexuals
                That's exactly what the developers are doing now. I don't want to have to jump through their hoops just to play the game legitimately with friends of mine who also play legitimately just because people I don't even play with, might potentially cheat in a co-op game.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Good news, you don't have to do anything extra.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                If it's anything like this

                That's a shame, I liked the first one. Already skipped the new Tribes game since its anti-cheat won't run if you have driver signing disabled, so I'm likely going to skip this one too.

                I'd have to dual boot just to play their game. That's inconvenient and unnecessary.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                The game has day 1 crossplay with the ps5. Im not surprised this was required. I don't like this crap in my games, but it rarely affects anything.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >I don't want to inconvenience myself
                >literally wants corporations to have unlimited access to all of his personal information
                you deserve what you get

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Missed the point moron.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Enlighten me

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                People cheat in PVE games all the time.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Games have other ways to deal with cheaters all the time.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                One of those being anti-cheat. You can say that they're going to far all you want, but to claim that no one ever cheats in PVE games is absurd.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >I can't trust people to not cheat in a pve game
                >the existing ways to stop this require extra button presses and that's too much to expect
                >therefore the solution is to give total control over to a faceless corporation
                You're a fricking Black person moron and deserve everything bad that ever happens to you.

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            This. I played deep rock galactic for years and never had an issue with cheaters despite how popular the game was. And even if there were cheaters I would have just kicked them out of my lobby.

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              >people dont cheat in pve games
              Yes they do. All the fricking time. I can't count how many times I've had to quit mid-mission in EDF because some homosexual has infinite health/ammo/energy.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      It's a 4 player coop game, just let people make their own lobby and kick troublemakers, it's not that hard.

  26. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Looks like SecuROMs back on the menu, boys.

  27. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    why does a coop shooter require a rootkit anticheat?

  28. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Does EDF have rootkit anticheat? No. So I will stick to that.
    If a dev cares about cheating in their coop game, it's a very, very, very, very bad sign of where priorities lie.

  29. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >even thinking of buying it after it was revealed to be over the shoulder slop
    yikes

  30. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    another failure from Sony game ? everyone expects that.

  31. 4 months ago
    Anonymous
  32. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    it's not even PVP why would they need anticheat

  33. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    That's a good thing, and I wish more games would do this. Imagine how much better the more hardcore games like Escape from Tarkov would be if they actually started taking harsher measures against cheaters like this. If you store any of your important information on your gaming PC then you're a complete fricking idiot in the first place.

  34. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >hate cheater homosexuals
    >hate corporations and they're attempts to rootkit people
    cleanbros, we lost

  35. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >saw the news on reddit
    >moron redditors are already defending this shit
    how are normies so whipped

  36. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Isn't Helldivers a PVE game?
    Why the frick does it need an anticheat at all

  37. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Based. If you play a online game with the others. You do NOT have the right to be a cheater ruined others games. Every game should bring this anticheat prevent all the cheaters.

  38. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Damn, I was actually looking forward to it too.

  39. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Shit like this is why I’ll spam snoy threads and bump famitsu threads for 200 more years, I want this board 100% misery for snoys to browse

  40. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Isn't there literally dozens of popular online games with anti-cheat like this, like Fortnite and Fall Guys, and you guys make a big stink out of it every time and then literally nothing happens? Still, nothing has happened.

  41. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    I have played pve games since like 2008 and I have never once ran into a cheater
    if anything the biggest problem are morons and people purposefully throwing

    I have no idea why "cheating" suddenly became a problem in coop games but holy shit this must be a shill tactic to get chinese spyware on my computer

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      as hard as this suddenly popped up it feels like one of those boardroom memes that the fricking empty suits at the top picked up on, like the moronation that spawned those
      >YOU WOULDNT DOWNLOAD A CAR!
      type shits.
      like, "AMAGERB CHEATING IS DAMAGING THE BRAND" is the new NFT/BlOcKcHaInZ/etc spergout by corporate.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      You almost certainly did but were too stupid to realize it.

  42. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Is there anyone that actually cares about cheaters in a pve game?

  43. 4 months ago
    DoctorGreen

    >china
    he says everyone does the same thing

  44. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    So much complaining from people who were never going to buy in the first place. Yeah it sucks, but this has been pc gaming since 2015. We can complain if it truly does impact performance or stay active after we shut the game off. For now though crying and saying things like "Nice, another snoyslop garbage I'll never install on my pc" is stupid. I got it on fanatical for 29$ and I just hope it's fun.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >it's CURRENT YEAR chuds
      >you're only allowed to complain if it goes past the rectum
      >NOT if it only penetrates an inch
      get fricked shoelicking homosexual

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        Frick off gay. I didn't say "current year" I said you homosexuals are just complaining about everything. The enigma crap didn't mess with my resident evil or monster hunter performance. Denuvo hasn't ruined any games for me. And I doubt this crap will affect helldivers. Modern pc gamers are just a bunch of whiny homosexuals now.

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          >it's only a kernel level botnet, nobody should complain
          Were you born that way or did you just recently assume the mantle of the king of morons?

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            Just lost five sales from my group.

            You're just looking for outrage. You don't buy or care about games. It's the same crap from you people. You can complain if it causes harm or hurts game performance. As is though you are just complaining and fighting online over something that was never going to affect you because you don't buy games. I've been a pc gamer since the early 2000s and now a days there's so much b***hing over nothing.

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              >games use Starforce-tier chink botnets for "anticheat" when they don't even need them
              >UR JUST FARMING OUTRAGE ABLOO BLOO BLOO
              Go suck a israelite, you're not gonna get rich shitposting here.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Cry some more homosexual. I buy and play my games, and I'll have fun with these releases. I'll look forward to helldivers, tekken and dragons dogma while you're still b***hing about denuvo and other crap on Ganker.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >it's not a problem for me so why is it a problem for you?
                Doesn't work for me.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Then go play your amazing chink botnet trash you dogshit-leather chewing mongoloid.
                Some thought Ganker couldn't get any worse, but then you showed up and shilled your gutter oil and anal discharge flavored hot pockets like they're pure "good" normalhomosexualry.

                Motherfricking cancer incarnate, get your subhuman insectoid ass off my board.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                You have no idea what a botnet is. Yes this anticheat sucks but you are an overly emotional homosexual and thus all your posts should be ignored.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Don't be so confident this isn't a botnet until you audit it yourself.

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              You caught me. I don't buy games and just post on Ganker to complain.

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          Trusting game developers to install kernel-level software is insane. They can't even make their games bug free and now you're letting them graft on a piece of software into your system that has the highest level of access. It doesn't even matter if you trust the developers themselves to not do anything intentionally malicious, it's a vector for other software to exploit.
          >while you play we're replacing your front door with a new one that has a faulty lock
          >we'll put it back when you quit so it's no big deal
          >just hope nobody enters during that time frame

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            It's a stability concern too. Buggy kernel services can do any kind of frickery. Considering it's all extra too it's just one more point of failure.
            >Oopsie whoopsie the anti-cheat service had a frickey-wucky and can't update 🙁
            >Hope you didn't want to play today! Just reinstall your OS or something idk 🙂
            >not our problem, we make games

  45. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Buying sonyslop
    lmao just blacklist anything that comes from them

  46. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Just lost five sales from my group.

  47. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    A fricking Sw*de

  48. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why the frick do they insist on doing this shit when Valorant proved this shit doesn't fricking work and Genshit proved cheat developers will use this shit as an attack vector

  49. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Just play palworld

  50. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    The funny thing is cheat on game that uses gameguard. It's useless. I have no programming knowledge.

  51. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >give players the ability to host servers themselves
    >let them moderate it and share blacklists
    vs
    >hope the anti-cheat actually works when the cat and mouse game typically doesn't in most games
    >don't give the players any way to deal with cheaters themselves if they encounter one

  52. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/19dp2qw/comment/kj85zl6/

    tl;dr: A developer says: THIS NPROTECT ISN'T A ROOTKIT KEYLOGGER THAT RUNS WHEN THE GAME'S CLOSED THAT YOU CAN'T UNINSTALL—JUST TRUST US GUYS!

  53. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Snoy
    >pozzed
    >100+GB size
    Already set it on ignore months ago.

  54. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    They must have added a gacha/online casino system for weapon, or gear acquisition, in general. They try to prolong people playing the game artificially through an insane grind, just like Darktide did.

  55. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    I kind of hated helldivers 1. Way too easy for one gay to ruin everyrhing, even on accident

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      I think that's the point of the game, kinda like Magicka
      if everyone is on their shit you can beat anything but it only takes one mistake to kill the party

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah just not my thing I guess. I enjoyed magicka though. Oh well, I still have EDF (6 cant come soon enough)

  56. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    homosexuals willing to put up with this have done irreversible damage

  57. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    These moronic Swedes were responsible for Magicka. Just like that game, they can be both geniuses and utter morons at once.

  58. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    I played the shit out of the first game. I want this game to be good but this is just one reason to not buy it day one. I think I'll wait for a review and see how it plays out because they dont even have vehicles either.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Your pic reminded me that the MCC anti-cheat doesn't seem to work when the game is on a case-sensitive file system. So in order to run it I have to clear hundreds of gigabytes off my NVME and copy it over, instead of running it from my multi-TB NAS.
      Very annoying.

  59. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    I hate online cheatBlack folk so much I almost dont care.
    Every cheatBlack person is scum of the earth and deserves death. You might think "lol its just a video game who cares", but cheaters have a rot that goes to the very soul, the type of person who just wants to see everyone around them suffer

  60. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Damn, that sucks. I was all hyped for HD2.

  61. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    I didn't even know anything about this game
    but no game exists that can make me install that shit, homie

  62. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    All anticheats are kernel level. They have to be in order to function.

  63. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Guess I'll be skipping this until they cave and remove it.

  64. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    gameguard really takes me back, and i mean really far back. every mmo had it from ragnarok to lineage, that shit was everywhere. and here is the kicker, it never fricking worked.
    also wasn't there a scandal where one of those mmo rootkit programs had a back door in it? just not sure if that was gameguard, there were many companies running this grift back then

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Everything has a backdoor. The fight for privacy was lost years ago so b***hing about it now is childish.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        not b***hing about anything, just mentioned it never worked and was easily bypassed, the only way for it to work is for it to run since boot like vanguard. anything else is just a burden placed on the product that is nothing but a smoke screen to claim you are doing something.

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          I was talking about the thread as a whole.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        defeatist

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